help!

[Lisa]

Hi guys, right, have been talking to a friend & they know of 3 laptops for sale, all Hewlitt Packard, the first one is a compaq nx9010 at £500, then a nx9005 at £450 & an Evo n1020 at £400.

 

could any of you tell me if they are value for money & would I be able to run music progs like cuebase etc on any of them??

 

thanx:D

[Guest RickD]

If you're buying them second-hand then probably not worth it as they are only about £600 or so new for the nx9010... The specs for them are OK I suppose, but nothing special and cubase etc might be a little slow on any of them...

[Ian Cashman]

the minimum i would recommend for any audio prog worth its salt is

 

P3 800mhz

256 ram

 

and that will still be a lame setup..

[Ian Cashman]

...and you will need some kind of (usb?) external sound device cos the built in laptop sound will prolly be a awful bogstandard thing that will glitch like hell

[Lisa]

thye are brand new & ben looking on net getting info etc, think he is gonna go for it

 

Ian, no doubt you will be quizzed hon

[Tony P]

It's one of the better compaq's in the range and has:

 

hp compaq nx9010

P4 2.8 GHz

256M/40G

15" TFT

XGA DVD/CD-RW

ATI M Radeon modem

WXP Pro

 

apparently it's quiet good.

 

so this should be enough to run music programs off then?